- ABA Tax Section Seeks Withdrawal of Proposed Issue Price Definition for Tax-Exempt Bonds.
- ABA Tax Section Suggests Changes to Proposed Arbitrage Restriction Regs.
- U.S. Cities Criticize Treatment of Munis in Bank Liquidity Plan.
- Fitch: Proposed HQLA Rules May Affect Muni Market Liquidity.
- Reuters: U.S. Municipal Bond Trade Markups Face New Regulatory Scrutiny.
- GASB Issues Guidance for Implementing Pension Standards.
- The Bond Buyer and BDA Present the National Municipal Bond Summit.
- SIFMA’s Muni Bond School — Introductory: 10 Sessions starting Feb. 18 – NYC.
- Lakes Area Business Ass’n v. City of Forest Lake – Court of Appeals holds that statute governing capital improvement bonds used to finance the construction of public facilities applies only to municipalities and their issuance of bonds, and thus any of the provisions of the statute allegedly requiring that a vote take place before the issuance of the bonds did not apply to city development authority’s issuance of bonds to finance construction of a new city hall and public safety building.
- And finally, everyone calm down. Those high-pitched shrieks emanating from Illinois are cries of delight, not terror, as the elementary school children of Macoupin County watch their school quite literally sink into an abandoned coal mine.
